‘Anti-left’ group targets Dutch academics with home visits

Online harassment is now spilling into the real world, with politically outspoken historians doxed and subject to posters warning: ‘You are being watched’

Published on
April 7, 2021
Last updated
April 7, 2021
David Matthews
XR activists standing up with eyes painted on placards in front of the House of the Parliament where the New Extinction Rebellion campaign has started in The Hague, Netherlands on September 1, 2020
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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by stephen... on April 7, 2021 - 7:03pm
This is clearly criminal harassment, but in covering intimidation of Dutch academics, you might also mention the assassination of Groningen former academic and politician Pim Fontuyn by an environmentalist and animal rights campaigner in 2002 and the killing of his friend and partner of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Theo van Gogh in a jihad attack by a group with an immigrant background in 2004. Fontuyn's killer was released from prison in 2014.
#2 Submitted by NJF on April 8, 2021 - 5:43pm
Indeed it's harassment, undoubtedly learnt from the lefts methods, such is the circularity of politics it's hard to tell the extremes apart when your a centrist.

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